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• "General view of exhibition hall (first floor)"
• "The Second International Exhibition of Eugenics, Sept. 22 - Oct. 22, 1921 in the American Museum of Natural History, by H. Laughlin," title page
• "Exhibit of the Second International Congress of Eugenics," floor plans of exhibition hall
• "Copy of certificate awarded for meritorious exhibits," at the Second International Congress of Eugenics
• "Eugenical classification of the human stock"
• The average American male
• "Fig. 6. The chromosomes of man"
• "Forecasting the growth of nations"
• "Approaching extinction of Mayflower descendants"
• "Chart IV, proportion of intermarriage among men and women of various nationalities in New York City (1908-1912)"
• Infant mortality rates in the US by nationality of mother
• Poster on anthropometric methods
• Inheritance of palm and sole prints
• Measurement of physical and mental traits
• "Porteus Test" for measuring mental traits
• "Heredity of musical ability," Fig. 19
• "Immigration into United States from different countries, 1820-1920"
• Distribution of counties in the United States with at least 50% Negro population
• "Inheritance of specific iso-agglutinins in the human blood"
• "Comparison of white and negro fetuses"
• Difference between white and negro fetuses
• "The Catlin Mark, the inheritance of an unusual opening in the parietal bones"
• Heredity of harelip and cleft palate
• "Massachusetts department of mental diseases exhibits pictures of 59 criminal brains"
• "Racial differences in mental fatigue"
• "Heredity in epilepsy," Fig. 31
• "The background of illegitimacy, delinquency, and mental defect"
• "Per cent of increase in total population and in the white and negro population," of insane in hospitals
• "New York State Commission for mental defectives, extra-institutional care"
• "Composite portraiture," Fig. 35
• "Hawaiian, and Hawaiian hybrids"
• "Swiss folk types," about racial types
• "Dutch folk types," about racial types
• "Pedigree chart of John Burroughs' family"
• Pedigrees of dramatic ability and musical talent
• "Pedigree of the Caesars"
• Marriage and birth rates in relation to immigration
• "The Old Americans, main physical and physiological characteristics of the Tribe of Ishmael"
• "The Jukes," Fig. 44
• "The Nam family," Fig. 45
• "Eugenical sterilization legislation," in the United States
• Color inheritance in Indian corn
• "Inheritance of Stature," by C. B. Davenport, Eugenics Record Office
• "'Cretinous' dwarf, representing the achondroplastic, short-legged type,"
• Data and outline of human figure during development
• "Multiple neurofibromatosis and its inheritance," by S. A. Preiser and C. B. Davenport, Eugenics Record Office
• "A bibliography of hereditary eye defects," by L. Howe
• Pedigree: "Familial aniridia"
• "Family pedigree showing hereditary cataract"
• "Body build: its development and inheritance," by C.B. Davenport, Eugenic Record Office
• "The science of eugenics and sex-life, love, marriage, maternity: the regeneration of the human race," by W.J. Hadden, C.H. Robinson, and M.R. Melendy
• "Love in its anatomical connections"
• "Phrenological chart of the human brain"
• "Report of the president of the American Eugenics Society, Inc., June 26, 1926"
• Eugenics and sex harmony: The sexes, their relations and problems, by H.H. Rubin
• Eugenik: Erblehre, erbpflege (Eugenics: Hereditary teaching, preservation), October 1930
• People, A Magazine for all the People (April 1931), American Eugenics Society, cover
• "Wanted: Better Babies: How Shall We Get Them?" by Ellsworth Huntington, Eugene Robison, Ray Erwin Baber, and Maurice R. Davie, People (April 1931)
• "What We Pay," by James H.S. Bossard, People Magazine (April 1931), cost of the socially inadequate
• "Birth Control and the Racial Future," by Frank H. Hankins, People (April 1931)
• Profile of Frederick Huntington Gillett, People (April 1931)
• Profile of Charles F. Ruggles, People (April 1931)
• Profile of Mrs. Gilbert Grosvenor (daughter of Alexander Graham Bell), People (April 1931)
• "Birth Control Steps Out, A Note on the Senate Hearing," by Margaret Sanger, People (April 1931)
• "Primitive Eugenics," by Harry Whitisle, People (April 1931), history of eugenic practices around the world
• People (April 1931) news items: disputed quote by President Herbert Hoover, Senate tesitmony on birth control, use of eye color inheritance in courts
• Margaret Sanger testisfies on birth control before Senate committee, People (April 1931)
• Poster: "Can Eugenics Bring Us Better Food?" Applying genetics and selection from humans to crops
• Eugenics Record Office (ERO) soon after construction
• Eugenics Record Office, archives room with card index on far wall and field worker files on right
• Stewart House, an existing Victorian structure that housed the Eugenics Record Office (ERO) 1910-1913 while new building was constructed next door
• Eugenics Record Office, about 1925
• Eugenics Record Office, interior with workers
• Models of inheritance of racing capacity in horses by Harry H. Laughlin
• Eugenics Record Office, Field Worker Training Class of 1913, with Harry H. Laughlin (1) and Charles B. Davenport (6)
• Eugenics Record Office, Field Worker Training Class of 1913 (Laughlin in foreground, center, Davenport at blackboard, Stewart House in background)
• Eugenics Record Office, Field Worker Training Class of 1913 (Davenport lecturing at blackboard)
• Eugenics Record Office, Field Worker Training Class (Davenport lecturing)
• Eugenics Record Office, Field Worker Training Class of 1914 (Davenport and Laughlin seated 3rd and 5th in front row)
• Eugenics Record Office, Field Worker Training Class of 1916 (Davenport in front with Laughlin in rear with white tie)
• Eugenics Record Office, Annual Meeting of the Eugenics Research Association, 1918 (Laughlin in front, Stewart House in background)
• Eugenics Record Office, Field Worker Training Class of 1918 (Laughlin at back)
• Eugenics Record Office, Field Worker Training Class of 1920 (postcard)
• Eugenics Record Office, Field Worker Training Class of 1921 (Laughlin on far left)
• Field Worker Training Class of 1922 on field trip to Kings Park State Hospital (Laughlin on far right)
• "Homokak Family: A Nut Study," pedigree parody by Eugenics Record Office Field Worker Training Class of 1923
• Charles B. Davenport, Director of Biological Laboratory, Carnegie Department of Genetics and Eugenics Record Office, Cold Spring Harbor
• Charles B. Davenport, Director of Biological Laboratory, Carnegie Department of Genetics and Eugenics Record Office, Cold Spring Harbor (signed)
• Charles B. Davenport, Director, Eugenics Record Office, Carnegie Department of Genetics, and Biological Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor
• Charles B. Davenport, Director of Biological Laboratory, Carnegie Department of Genetics and Eugenics Record Office, Cold Spring Harbor
• Charles B. Davenport doing fieldwork in Leslie County, Kentucky
• Harry H. Laughlin, Superintendent of Eugenics Record Office
• Harry H. Laughlin (far left) with International Federation of Eugenics Organizations at Stonehenge, England
• Albert F. Blakeslee memo about procedures for answering mail after closure of the Eugenics Record Office
• American Eugenics Society, program for "Round Table Conferences and Annual Meeting," New York, 1936
• American Eugenics Society, dinner invitation, program including Albert Wiggam and Frederick Osborn, New York
• American Eugenics Society, invitation to "Conference on the Relation of Eugenics and the Church," including Albert Wiggam, New York
• American Eugenics Society, membership drive materials (cover letter to Albert Blakeslee, prospect list, and form letter)
• Eugenics Research Association, notice of special meeting to change name to Association for Research in Human Heredity
• Family study, Eugenics Record Office "Individual Analysis Card" and submitted photos
• "Poorhouse Type of Source of Defectives," pedigree of epilepsy and feeblemindedness (C. Davenport and D. Weeks)
• "Hovel Type of Source of Defectives," pedigree of epilepsy and feeblemindedness
• "Hededitary Predisposition to Mental Illness: Dementia Praecox" (schizophrenia)
• "Hereditary Cerebellar Ataxia," pedigree of an autosomal dominant disorder
• Hypothetical pedigree of feeblemindedness, illustrating "good" and "bad" strains
• "Diagram Illustrating the Continuity of the Germ-Plasm and Consequently the Continuity of Ancestral Traits," adapted from Davenport
• Eugenics: The Science of Human Improvement by Better Breeding, by Charles B. Davenport
• "General Inspection Room Ellis Island," Eugenics: A Journal of Race Betterment (vol II:8)
• Eugenics: A Journal of Race Betterment (vol II:8), title page including Francis Galton's definition of eugenics and Fitter Families medal
• "Eugenics and the Church," by Edwin Bishop, Eugenics: A Journal of Race Betterment (vol II:8)
• Advertisement for Racial Hygiene, for Eugenics' Book Club, Eugenics: A Journal of Race Betterment (vol II:8)
• Tenement dwellers, "How can they be helped?" Eugenics: A Journal of Race Betterment (vol II:8)
• Eugenics Record Office memo to instructors about using ERO trait forms for "required laboratory work in biology, sociology, and psychology"
• Eugenics Record Office memo to high school teachers about conducting student pedigree studies in science classes
• Harry H. Laughlin form letter requesting pedigree information from relatives of a family that had submitted a family study
• "Pedigree of Musical Capacity," Eugenics Record Office form including instructions to test sense of pitch, intensity, time, consonance, tone, rhythm
• "Schedule for the Study of Twins," Eugenics Record Office form
• "Sterilization of the Unfit" by Anthony M. Turano, Forum (February 1934)
• T.J. Harris letter to C.B. Davenport, about hereditary genius (4/5/1934)
• C.B. Davenport response to T.J. Harris, about hereditary genius (4/6/1934)
• E.S. Gosney (Human Betterment Foundation) letter to L.I. Dublin (Metropolitan Life Insurance Company), about pending NY sterilization bill (5/8/1934)
• "Human Sterilization," Human Betterment Foundation
• Eugenic sterilizations performed in US through 1932, Human Betterment Foundation
• Eugenic Sterilizations (total) performed in US through 1932, Human Betterment Foundation, alternate
• "Effects of Eugenic Sterilization as Practiced in California," Human Betterment Foundation
• C.B. Davenport letter to S.A. Seigal (Haaren High School), about racial characteristics of various European groups (3/8/1933)
• C.M. Pomerat letter to C.B. Davenport, about a study of the relationship between "crural index" (leg length) and athletic ability
• C.B. Davenport response to C.M. Pomerat, about measurements for a study of "crural index" (leg length) and athletic ability (8/26/1933)
• C.B. Davenport letter to H.J. Muller, about reasons against holding a genetics congress in Russia (7/6/1937)
• Eugenics Education Society of New South Wales luncheon in honor of C.B. Davenport (standing 2nd from left), Sydney, Australia (9/25/1914)
• "Inheritance of Musical Talent," pedigree chart with instructions, Eugenics Section, American Breeders Association
• "The Study of Human Heredity," by Davenport, Laughlin, Weeks, Johnstone, and Goddard, Eugenics Record Office Bulletin No. 2
• D.P. Murphy letter to C.B. Davenport, about a study of families in which there have been severe congenital defects (1/11/1934)
• C.B. Davenport response to D.P. Murphy, about a study of congenital "monsters" and using miscarriages as an estimate of embryonic lethals (1/15/1934)
• D.P. Murphy letter to C.B. Davenport, about a study of families in which there have been severe congenital defects (1/19/1934)
• "The Present Position of the Mendelians and Biometricians," The Mendel Journal, focusing on the "battle" over intermediate forms
• "Proposed Clinic of Human Heredity," a plan prepared by Harry H. Laughlin as the basis for negotiations with the Carnegie Institution of Washington
• "Genes and Eugenics," New York Times (8/24/1932), critical review of Third International Eugenics Congress
• "Feminist Aims All Nonsense, Says Eugenicist," New York Herald Tribune (8/23/1932), review of Third Eugenics Congress including immigration policy
• "Holds Capitalism Bars Eugenic Goal," New York Times (8/24/1932), review of H.J. Muller's paper at the Third International Eugenics Congress
• "Birth Control Peril to Race, Says Osborn," New York Times (8/23/1932), review of H.F. Osborn's paper at Third International Eugenics Congress
• "Eugenicists Hail Their Progress as Indicating Era of Supermen," New York Herald Tribune (1932), review of Third International Eugenics Congress
• "Outstanding Men Found in Ancestry of Lincoln," Boston Globe (8/21/1932), review of exhibits at Third International Eugenics Congress
• "On Catholicism, As Revealed in the latest Encyclical of His Holiness Pope Pius XI," Eugenics Review (vol 23:1), papal decree condemning eugenics
• "The Survival of the Unfittest," Eugenics Review (vol 23:1), book advertisement
• "Mathematical Darwinism, A Discussion of the Genetical Theory of Natural Selection," by J.B.S. Haldane, Eugenics Review (vol 23:1)
• "Eugenics and Society" (The Galton Lecture given to the Eugenics Society), by Julian S. Huxley, Eugenics Review (vol 28:1)
• Comic, "The First International Eugenics Congress, London, July 1912", Eugenics Review (vol 28:1)
• "Race Mixture," by K.B. Aikman, Eugenics Review (vol. 25:3)
• "The Complex Determinants of Amentia," by L.S. Penrose, Eugenics Review (vol. 26:2)
• "Eugenics in Norway," by C.B.S. Hodson, Eugenics Review (vol. 27:1)
• "Eugenics, Socialism, and Capitalism," Eugenics Review (vol. 27), Julian Huxley's comments on heredity and environment
• "German Eugenics in Practice," by Eliot Slater, Eugenics Review (vol. 27:4), ambivalent review of sterilization and marriage laws
• "Selection of Negroes," Eugenical News (vol. 2), eugenic effect of slave trading in the South
• "Transfer of ERO," Eugenical News (vol. 3), Carnegie Institution accepts gift of Eugenics Record Office from Mrs. E.H. Harriman
• "The Sixth Annual Meeting of the Eugenics Research Association," July 21, 1918, Eugenical News (vol. 3)
• Review of Applied Eugenics, By Paul Popenoe and Roswell H. Johnson, Eugenical News (vol. 4)
• "The Position of Field Workers," Eugenical News (vol. 4), survey showing that field workers earn 70% more than nurses
• "Traits of Buffalo Bill," Eugenical News (vol. 5:3)
• "The Moron," Eugenical News (vol. 5), J.E.W. Wallin's clinical definition of feeble-mindedness
• "State Expenses for Maintaining State Institutions for the Socially Inadequate Classes, 1916," Eugenical News (vol. 5)
• "A Great Hyperkinetic," Eugenical News (vol. 5:11), biography of Theodore Roosevelt including reference to his political relatives
• "Clinical and Field Studies of the 1921 Training Class," Eugenics Record Office, Eugenical News (vol. 6)
• "Syndactyly in the F__ Family," Eugenical News (vol. 15), fused fingers or toes -- later shown to be an autosomal dominant trait
• "The Second Indiana Sterilization Law," Eugenical News (vol. 15)
• "Eugenical Remarks on China," by A.B. Droogleever Fortuyn, Eugenical News (vol. 15:6)
• "Student Pedigree-Studies," (mechanical ability, by Margaret C. Mount; eye color, by Morris Steggerda)
• Francis Galton and Presidents of International Eugenics Congresses: Major L. Darwin, H. F. Osborn, C.B. Davenport, Eugenical News (vol. 17)
• "Vassar '82," Eugenical News (vol.18), ancestry and achievements of Vassar graduates from a survey by Mrs. Lucien Howe
• "Population Estimates," "Current Immigration Quotas," "Juvenile Delinquency as Related to Immigration," Eugenical News (vol. 18)
• "Eugenical Sterilization in Germany," Eugenical News (vol. 18:5), commentary and full translation of the German sterilization statute of 1933
• "The German Racial Policy," by C.G. Campbell, Eugenical News (vol.21:2)
• "Verschuer's Institute," Eugenical News (vol. 21), Otmar von Verscheur's move to the House of Folkhygiene in Frankfurt, Germany
• "Eye Colors in Man," from The Trait Book, ERO Bulliten No. 6, by Charles B. Davenport
• "Eugenics in Austria," Eugenics Review (vol. 26:4), highlighting the moderating influence of Catholicism on eugenic programs
• "The Inheritance of Mental Traits," from Evolution and Genetics, by Thomas H. Morgan, an early criticism of eugenics in an important text
• Joseph S. DeJarnette, an early advocate for sterilization, testified against Carrie Buck at her trial in Amherst County, Virigina
• Irving Whitehead, the lawyer appointed to represent Carrie Buck, called no witnesses at her trial in Amherst County, Virigina
• Dr. Albert Priddy, the first superintendent of the Virginia Colony for Epileptics and the Feebleminded, who brought the case against Carrie Buck
• Aubrey Strode, the lawyer who wrote the Virginia sterilization law and who took Buck vs. Bell to the U.S. Supreme Court
• Death certificate of Carrie Buck's daughter, Vivian, who died of "entero colitis" at age 8
• Carrie Buck's photograph of her wedding to Mr. Eagle, to whom she remained married until his death
• Last photograph of Carrie Buck, taken several weeks before her death, dressed as Mary for the Christmas pageant at the nursing home where she lived
• "The Progress of Eugenical Sterilization," by Paul Popenoe, Journal of Heredity (vol. 25:1), including journal cover and contents page
• "The Progress of Eugenical Sterilization," by Paul Popenoe, Journal of Heredity (vol. 25:1), including journal cover and contents page
• F.W. Hatch, from "The Progress of Eugenical Sterilization," by Paul Popenoe, Journal of Heredity (vol. 25:1)
• E.S. Gosney, from "The Progress of Eugenical Sterilization," by Paul Popenoe, Journal of Heredity (vol. 25:1)
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, from "The Progress of Eugenical Sterilization," by Paul Popenoe, Journal of Heredity (vol. 25:1)
• John Bell, from "The Progress of Eugenical Sterilization," by Paul Popenoe, Journal of Heredity (vol. 25:1)
• Carrie Buck, from "The Progress of Eugenical Sterilization," by Paul Popenoe, Journal of Heredity (vol. 25:1)
• Harry Sharp, from "The Progress of Eugenical Sterilization," by Paul Popenoe, Journal of Heredity (vol. 25:1)
• Joseph Mayer, from "The Progress of Eugenical Sterilization," by Paul Popenoe, Journal of Heredity (vol. 25:1)
• "Mental and Physical Traits of Identical Twins Reared Apart," by H.H. Newman, Journal of Heredity (vol. 25)
• "The German Sterilization Law," by Paul Popenoe, Journal of Heredity (vol. 25)
• "Another Wooly-Hair Mutation in Man," by C.Ph. Schokking, Journal of Heredity (vol. 25)
• "Sterilization for Ten Million Americans," by J.H. Kempton, Journal of Heredity (vol. 25), review of L. Whitney's Case for Sterilization

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